Woke up this morning to find Literary Titan had reviewed The Influencer’s Canvas and gave it four stars. Reading someone else’s interpretation of your work always feels surreal, like watching strangers discuss a conversation you thought was private. The reviewer called it ‘clever, biting, and unexpectedly tender’, which made me smile because that tension between […]
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Flying back from Antalya, I realised how identical beauty performance has become across cities. The same Instagram pose at the Mediterranean that I see on the Thames. The same filtered selfie technique at Turkish beach resorts that appears in Hyde Park. The same eyebrow shape, the same subtle lip enhancement, the same head tilt optimised
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Eurasian Creative Guild just confirmed I’ll lead a masterclass this autumn: “Narratives of Luxury and Identity in a Globalised World.” I’m excited and slightly terrified. The masterclass will explore how luxury industries shape contemporary identity formation. Using my five published novels as case studies, we’ll examine how brand management psychology, digital platforms, and global consumer
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Two months into writing Project Mirror and I’m finally ready to share a piece of this world with you. This excerpt comes from early in the book, when my protagonist still believes in what she’s doing. She works for Aesthetic Dynamics Corp as a Senior Aesthetic Technician, fixing glitches in people’s neural beauty systems. Think
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The faces that filled Regnum Carya’s lobby last night were young enough to have grown up with beauty filters as default reality. Perfect audience for dismantling our algorithmic beauty future. The conversation started predictably with questions about character development, research process, typical book discussion territory. Then someone asked if I thought beauty subscriptions would actually
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Video call with Lydia from Antalya confirming final timeline. Pre-production January-February 2026. Filming spring. Pilot screening Q3 2026 at Pushkin House. Two years of collaboration led to this moment. From casual mentorship to research memos to full documentary project. Timeline makes it official. Sixth research memo almost finished. Examines how digital platforms change storytelling for
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Yesterday’s interview with hjbookblog reminded me why I prefer talking to actual readers over standard questionnaires. The blogger, a literature enthusiast from India who clearly reads everything she features, asked questions that made me think rather than recite my usual author talking points. When she asked which themes I keep returning to, I found myself
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The lobby of Regnum Carya becomes literary territory on August 26th. I’ll be talking about Project Mirror, the book that’s been consuming my thoughts since July. If you’ve been following the blog posts, you know this story emerged from my nail salon chair six weeks ago. A client asked for ‘influencer hands’ through surgery, not
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Two months inside Project Mirror and I have to take regular walks through Hyde Park just to remember what unfiltered reality looks like. The corporate structure behind my fictional beauty-tech empire is becoming terrifyingly plausible. I’m calling them Aesthetic Dynamics Corp – chose the name for its bland corporate poetry, the kind that hides sinister
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ECG just confirmed something I didn’t anticipate: excerpts from Polished Edges and Temporary Access are being considered for screen adaptation. December 2025, London. “Film & Literature: Shorts Review” session as part of ECG Film Festival 2026 programming cycle. My short story collections will be reviewed alongside work from other writers for possible development into micro-short
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Dive into my latest novel that explores art meets algorithm in our hyperconnected world. Multilingual storytelling with visual elements—questioning what’s authentic behind perfectly curated facades.
